nhi.sgit.ai: The Question Splits Into Two Populations

Summary

The brief that scoped the sibling site. The question of how to give an identity to AI agents splits into agents you run and agents you rent; the industry's mature answer is attestation-based and serves only the first, while every agent practitioners actually name belongs to the second — where the honest current practice is to hand over a broad credential and hope. This site is the cryptographic half of that gap, and the bootstrap trap is the mechanism behind it: the reason rented agents have no identity is that the loop has no exit without a narrow ingress.

Key concepts

• The two populations — agents you run vs. agents you rent — only one is served
• Why the workarounds persist — the bootstrap trap supplies the mechanism behind the thesis
• Identity without attestation — a hosted agent can hold a key and present a mandate
• The empty rows — no surveyed system supports per-agent keys

Key ideas

• For rented agents the equivalent capability is an open feature request, not a product.
• The site's thesis is the observation; the bootstrap trap is the explanation, and they are stronger together.
• A collection without a position is an archive — the thesis belongs on the front page.
• Vendor lists date in weeks; scenarios are comparable, checkable and re-runnable.

On this site

Foundation. The identity gap this site is the cryptographic half of.

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